Word: fishing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Anchorage the Alaskan press club organized a great reception. The penguins were renamed Egegik (an Alaskan name) and Angela (Italian) Kinglea (meaning very good friend). They consumed their first meal in the Far North, consisting of hooligans (local fish) and salmon...
...Departing from its homely line of fish names (Sculpin, Albacore) the Navy announced last week that its first two ballistics-missile submarines would be christened Abraham Lincoln and Robert...
Silk & Sake. Just as a "lucky day" was chosen for the engagement, so another "lucky day" will have to be chosen for the marriage. In the meantime, the Emperor and Empress will exchange gifts with the Shodas-a sea bream, the fish of good fortune, as well as sake and silk. Akihito will present his future wife with a jeweled sword to protect her chastity, and the Emperor will bestow on her the Grand Cordon of the Imperial Order of the Sacred Crown, the highest decoration given a woman in Japan. Finally, the young couple will exchange love poems, written...
Meanwhile, Father is making desperate attempts to be friendly, but the children are far too coony to be taken in. "What's this," sneers the older boy when Father tries to teach him how to fish, "the Huckleberry Finn approach?" And when he mildly reproves the younger son for some particularly brattish behavior, Sophia indignantly tells him: "Try to be a parent, not a policeman." In the end, when Father is reduced to gibbering ineffectiveness, the woman calmly and efficiently takes over and puts the poor man out of his misery by marrying him. At this point the children...
...fashioned pre-Freudian directness. Author O'Hara allows this rebuff to clue the pattern of Alfred Eaton's life. From then on, he is destined to confer his love rather than give it, to make contact with people rather than make friends. His outwardly charming, cold-fish personality seems to carry a jinx. Before he is 20, he is partially responsible for the deaths of his childhood sweetheart and of his first mistress. At home he can do nothing to stave off his mother's crack-up as she drowns in alcohol...